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This paper summarizes the 2003 book "Moral Courage". The paper discusses the book's assertion that leadership demands true moral courage, which the author defines as the willingness and ability to make ethical decisions in the face of conflicting forces and goals.

From the Paper
"This book presents an aspect of ethical behavior and leadership, moral courage, needed to make brave, ethical decisions in the face of conflicting forces and goals...."

Tags:Moral, courage, Kidder, Ethical, Leadership

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The following paper will look at courage and at personal choice as touched upon in Protagoras and in Book IX of the 'Republic by Plato. In particular, the paper examines the curious actions of the diver and first attempt to locate an explanation for this in the final lines of the dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras as the two grapple with the concept of courage.

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"The following paper will look at courage and at personal choice as both are touched upon in Protagoras and in Book IX of the Republic by Plato. The next few pages look at the curious actions of the diver and first attempt to locate an explanation for this in the final lines of the dialogue between Socrates (as recorded by Plato) and Protagoras as the two grapple with the concept of courage. Later, the paper turns to explore how Book IX of the Republic (while admittedly not addressing courage explicitly) succeeds in offering a better explanation for the diver's behavior by stressing the actions of the man who is overcome by a desire..."

Tags:plato, socrates, courage

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The paper uses Rollo May's book, "The Courage to Create" as a basis for describing the creative genius of Beethoven and Mozart.

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"Rollo May in "The Courage to Create" states that creativity is a yearning for immortality. In his text, he sees the creative person as a rebel but also believes that creativity requires limits because the creative act arises from the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them. In the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, creativity was linked to such attitudes as hedonism and such constructs as organicism, contextualism and moralism as is evident in "The Magic Flute".

Tags:Rollo May, The Courage to Create, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Mozart

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The paper looks at how we see Henry Fleming in "The Red Badge of Courage" develop from an idealistic young man to an experienced, more mature, soldier due to his experiences of war. The paper explains that Henry believed war would be a glorious and fantastic experience, but the stark reality of death teaches Henry that war cannot be romanticized. The paper emphasizes that while he does not earn any prestigious metals, Henry does leave the war a changed, brave and mature man.

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"In Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, we see Henry Fleming develop from an idealistic young man to an experienced soldier changed and more mature due to the experiences of war. Henry learns to deal with the difficulty of war and, as a result, grows through his understanding of reality. Henry may not be what we would consider a typical hero but this does not diminish the fact that he becomes a man and grows as a result of his experience. Alfred Kazin maintains, "Crane's hero is Everyman, the symbol made flesh upon which war plays its havoc" (Kazin 254). Part of Henry being representative of everyman is the fact that he must come to terms with his misguided notion about war by living through it. He is not an intellectual type that transcends war with words and flowery thought; he is a man that lives through the awful experience and emerges victorious from it."

Tags:war, death, soldier, courage, maturity

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This paper discusses six senators as presented in the book "Profiles in Courage" by John F. Kennedy, showing their backgrounds, their political points of view, their acts, and the aftermath in each case. The six senators discussed are John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, and Lucius Lamar, covering the nineteenth century from the early period through and past the Civil War.

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"John F. Kennedy offers a series of portraits of U.S. Senators and their courageous political acts in the face of adversity in his book 'Profiles in Courage'. He features Senators because he himself was in the Senate at the time, and he could include other political leaders who also displayed courage in their professional lives. The men he does choose to profile represent a number of different political backgrounds and points of view. John Quincy Adams was a young Senator from Massachusetts, the same position as Kennedy when he wrote his book. At the time, the Senate was just developing as an institution. Adams was a Federalist, the leading political party of the time, a party that emerged from the late colonial period through the efforts of men like Madison and Jay, the writers of The Federalist Papers. "

Tags:kennedy, profiles, courage

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Stephen Crane produces an innovative style of writing in "Red Badge of Courage", one that works to provide the reader with an immediate and realistic experience of the American Civil War. By placing the reader into a smaller scene of reality, through the eyes of one young soldier, Crane is able to heighten the sensory experience, and describe scenes of battle with vivid imagery that conveys both the chaos and savagery of war. As a technique, Crane's writing scripted images into photographic fragments that most closely resemble the individual's own sensory experience, thus making the soldier's experience one of greater reality than other war narratives of this era.

Tags:red, badge, courage

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This paper discusses Tim O' Brien's "The Things They Carried" simultaneously as an exploration of American involvement in the war in Vietnam and as an examination of a single soldier's feelings about himself. It focuses on the theme of coming to terms with different kinds of courage.

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"One of the most important lessons that we each acquire as we grow up is the fact that there are a number of different ways of being brave and that few of us has as great a measure of courage along any of the vectors of bravery as we would like to believe .."

Tags:courage, war, vietnam, O'Brien

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This paper explains that the reader of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage", initially notes the theme of courage in the opening scene, when the reader sees Henry regarding the warriors he learned about in school as personifications of courage. The author points out that, throughout the novel, the ability of Crane to describe courage in real, raw terms is particularly striking, especially in the way it evokes the understanding and sympathy of the reader. The paper stresses that, in addition to the strength of Crane's language in evoking the feeling of courage, the author's ability to describe the conditions of war with striking realism only serves to underscore the depth of courage it requires from its combatants.

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"In addition to Henry's courage in the face of fear (for he most definitely is afraid after his first day of fighting), there are several other characters in the novel that exhibit courage in different ways. For example, Hasbrouck is not only the personification of bravery in his ability to "lead his men into battle," but also in his care of his men. In addition, Henry's friend, Jim, is almost stoic in his ability to face the reality (and high probability) of death on the battlefield. Even Henry's mother shows (perhaps the most difficult kind of courage), when she sends Henry to war in spite of her fear, and places her faith in the will of "the Lord"."

Tags:sympather, reader, fear, personification, language

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The true story of Erin Brockovich shows the triumph of the single mom over huge corporate interests as an astounding example of human moral courage. Similarly, the story of The Bride in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 action film "Kill Bill" is entirely fictitious but demonstrates in exaggerated cinematographic form the value of physical courage. This paper examines the theme of courage and shows how it is portrayed throughout both movies.

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"Were it not for her rigorous traditional training sessions, The Bride would not have had the courage to take on a whole army of enemies as she did throughout the film. Her physical endurance during the training sessions enabled her to endure the remarkable amounts of pain she encountered through her battles. Kill Bill illustrates how physical and mental courage converge to strengthen character. The Bride's rewards were not fully realized until the sequel to Tarantino's movie, when the protagonist confronts Bill and reunites with her child."

Tags:Steven, Soderbergh, Quentin, Tarantino, thriller

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An analysis of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children," this book report delves into the themes of motherly love, sacrifice, survival, courage and heroism. A close analysis of the book, the relations between the characters, and the messages that author Brecht is sending the reader, this report in particular emphasizes the strength and admirable qualities of the main protagonists.

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"Nothing tests our mettle better than adversity, and there is no adversity greater and more trying than war. This appears to underlie Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which is sharply and precisely set against the Thirty Years' War in certain parts of Sweden in 1624 and thereafter. Mother Courage's valor and grit in nurturing her children and sustaining them by keeping her selling business hefty or surviving have been told and re-told, but the undertones never wear out and continue to reverberate how this brave mother- woman- person's instinct to survive leads her to be more than herself in each stroke of tragedy. I view Brecht as proposing that the survival instinct will move a person to go quite far and do quite everything and anything in any way -- for those he or she loves and for himself or herself, or perish. I view Brecht's characters Mother Courage and son Eilif as standing firmly for this life as if it is all there is, and with Swiss Cheese and Kattrin doing something else out-of-time and out-of-this-world but more heroic and more memorable."

Tags:Sweden, history, Thirty Years' War, literature